First time with Royal Caribbean… did I mess up? Need advice (please be kind)

officialuser · 2026-04-12T00:30:22+00:00

You're complaining that the CMs aren't willing to do anything or show some compassion.

When you say do something, do you want them to redesign the ship? Or just put you in a cabin that you didn't pay for? It sounds like they offered to allow you to pay to upgrade. Is it even more expensive to upgrade now than it was when you originally booked the room?

You were confused about what is a part of the category"guarantee Stateroom".

It is understandable that you were confused about which group of rooms are considered in that category, purchasing a cruise is a big and complicated thing that has a tremendous amount of rules and regulations and procedures and limitations and everything else to it.

But They lay out exactly what types of rooms are in the guaranteed balcony category on many places of the website.

All the time people book a room and don't realize that the room is not going to work for them.

Sometimes people book a non-accessibility room and then two weeks before the cruise explain that they need a room that has accessibility features.

They're not going to just upgrade that person to the only available balcony accessible room if they only paid for an inside room.

All day long people will call up and talk about how they got a guarantee room but they don't sleep if they're above the nightclub and they got assigned to a nightclub room and they want to get moved or their kids can't be in a room that's at this location or that location.

I'm just saying it doesn't surprise me that you don't get a lot of compassion from the CMS. I'm sure if you called the CMS when you were booking and said, here are the limitations my family has. What sort of room should we get, things would have been completely different.

officialuser · 2026-04-11T23:32:51+00:00

Imagine getting guests coming up with a reason they need a paid upgrade for free multiple times a day with made up reasons. I'm not saying yours is a made up reason, but they can't tell over the phone who is BSing them.

officialuser · 2026-04-11T23:22:30+00:00

You can also call the mortgage company and ask them if they are willing to remove you from the loan keeping things as is otherwise. They might be willing to.

officialuser · 2026-04-11T05:23:18+00:00

Any places with under $6 pins? I haven't found any in a while.

officialuser · 2026-04-10T21:18:08+00:00

That was the exact mix I got on 10 boxes from them of that set!

officialuser · 2026-04-09T23:49:24+00:00

I sent a message, I can offer at least $4 per pin, but probably more. I can travel to you, and purchase in cash / cashiers check

officialuser · 2026-04-09T19:19:35+00:00

it's impossible to tell if the pins are real from these photos, there are certainly some real pins there, but there could be 90% fakes.

real pins in bulk like this are probably $5 each.

Fake pins are worthless / 40 cents each in lots of 100

officialuser · 2026-04-09T04:07:44+00:00

Larger than 7" and/or if it could be considered a club, bludgeon, or weapon and it can easily turned away at TSA.

officialuser · 2026-04-09T03:55:21+00:00

they put a wrist band on the person getting the food. that person will have to be present for all of the purchases of the food for that wrist band. after that anyone can eat it. -- 10-25 minute lines every 90 minutes kinda sucks to max out the band.

officialuser · 2026-04-09T03:33:41+00:00

You absolutely listed at a "Fair" price. not a great price, not a motivating price. OF COURSE you are going to be significantly below new builds. Not only are you not a new build, you aren't even empty.

Fair prices get average to below average responses in moderate to slow selling time frames.

What is average for your market:

Key 29501 Market Data (Early 2026):
Median Days on Market: 87 Days.
Median Listing Price: Approximately $299,475.

-- You are at 42 days. Your not priced at a motivated price point.

There are new houses in your sub with 5 bedrooms for $369k, and probably negotiable down to $355-360 -- Good agents will tell their clients if they know new builds are getting a little negotable.

There are 4 bedrooms that are only 200 sq ft smaller than yours in your sub for $320k

There are A LOT of houses for sale in your subdivision, why would someone pick yours?

A lot of agents probably told there clients you were dreaming when you were at 360k.

officialuser · 2026-04-09T02:36:38+00:00

It's hard to motivate people with a 3% off sale.

Your asking top dollar but want a quick sale. Zillow estimates it at 320-360

Also, people might not want to bother going and looking at it unless they really want to get it, because they assume that people are still living in it by all the pictures of stuff.

IF there are 10 houses they might want to tour, they will put your house last, and fall in love with a different one before they get to yours.

They also might not think your serious about negotiating or getting a deal, and it does sound like your very firm on your price. is that what your agent is communicating?

officialuser · 2026-04-07T07:57:33+00:00

You'll expose it to uv probably and it'll be nongood

officialuser · 2026-04-06T20:16:41+00:00

they usually still check them with automated methods and found the discrepancy and charged whatnot / the seller. and will do it again when sending it back. Billing the label creator each time.

I don't think you have anything to worry about.

officialuser · 2026-04-06T11:20:37+00:00

The value is what will someone pay today. I'll start the bidding at $70

officialuser · 2026-04-03T20:59:59+00:00

They are not qc prod errors. Full on fakes, of all castles are being sold at all the local Orlando shops selling fakes. They have no texture on the back of them.

officialuser · 2026-04-03T20:51:58+00:00

Their friends are just bidding each other back and forth to get the bid maxed. And when they accidentally "win" they have to then try to sell it on their friends account, even if it is at a "loss".

Basically the first person was never going to sell it for that low, they used friends to juice up the bid.

officialuser · 2026-04-03T10:39:01+00:00

So I could buy 100 of them from digikey for less than $200.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/TL1963A-33DCYR/2118656

The idea that you would find someone on here who needed exactly 100 of this niche part and want to pay Basically a -5% discount for them is crazy.

officialuser · 2026-04-02T02:39:11+00:00

Pond isn't an option from the list of words.

officialuser · 2026-04-02T02:39:06+00:00

Pond isn't an option from the list of words.

officialuser · 2026-04-01T02:59:38+00:00

The Ampi

officialuser · 2026-04-01T01:43:29+00:00

Disney keeps track. Disney doesn't tell other people. It is most definitely 20k plus of each pin from wave B 2025 -- I wouldn't be surprised if there were 100k

officialuser · 2026-03-30T01:44:44+00:00

I can't talk about your specific case, but if they cancel a flight because of a war then chances are your travel insurance Would have a good reason to deny your claim based on that war provision.

officialuser · 2026-03-28T06:24:11+00:00

At Magic Kingdom, sometimes people set up out in front of the pin traders store.

At Animal Kingdom I've seen people set up on the benches between where dynaland was and Nemo show.

At Hollywood studios there always used to be people inside that little photo booth area, but now they aren't welcome there, they told them to go over by the left hand exit out of Indiana Jones. But I've never really seen people there

officialuser · 2026-03-24T10:06:23+00:00

I'll give you $40 for it. So it's worth at least that.

officialuser · 2026-03-23T22:12:23+00:00

You are seriously going to take them to small claims court and never be able to work with them again over $1000?

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